A SINKING EMPIRE
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چکیده
This article pivots around the work of early modern legal scholar Hugo Grotius to consider political stakes ontological assessments sea and water in context Dutch imperialism. It draws on links with land reclamation projects Netherlands, while at same time ties these urgent questions within contemporary critical ocean studies water, ontology, race. Suggesting a rethinking Grotius’s understanding as perpetual res nullius – perpetually ownerless property it destabilizes renditions free from ownership. The remains firmly orbit property, mankind, thereby excluding those considered non-human, including racialized, gendered, more-than-human life forms. mare liberum does not form an exception territorial, personal, national conceptualizations but rather preconditions preparing world for its thingification. I examine how this has colonized our thinking ocean, law, being, belonging. At time, ocean’s very materiality seems resist narrative. Although conquest maritime imagination continues justify global models capital accumulation, always already shores up against spills out such reductive imaginaries.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Angelaki
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1469-2899', '0969-725X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725x.2023.2167784